This week's episode will be the last for a little while as Mac and family prepare to welcome their new baby, so naturally fate delivered the most news-packed week of the offseason for UConn basketball.

First things first, congratulations to the 2004 UConn men's basketball team, which emerged as the winner of our Greatest Teams Challenge by beating top-seeded 1999 in fairly convincing fashion. Mac and Tim discuss the competition, 2004's greatness and how what often feels like one of the program's more underrated teams asserted its dominance when the chips were down.

Then, Mac and Tim look ahead to the future, which will now include a 7-foot-1 homegrown superstar. Donovan Clingan officially committed to the Huskies this past week, delivering the latest recruiting win to Dan Hurley and his staff.

Finally, we wrap things up by discussing the NCAA's recent moves on Name, Image and Likeness and speculate on which UConn athletes could have best cashed in on their fame. Who might Kemba have endorsed? Who would have repped Wings Over Storrs or St. Pep's? How many Dunkin Donuts commercials would Khalid El-Amin appeared in? All that and more in this week's "season finale."

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It all comes down to this.

To nobody's surprise, the national championship 1999 and 2004 UConn men's basketball teams have emerged has the top teams in program history, and now it's time to figure out who would win a hypothetical matchup between the two.

Does Rip Hamilton and company take the win? Or would Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon prove too much? Tim and I give our thoughts, but ultimately it's up to you to decide.

Vote in this week's polls on my Twitter (@MacCerullo) to determine this week's winners. Polls are open through Friday at noon.

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And then there were four.

After a spirited quarterfinal round, we've reached the Final Four of our UConn Men's Basketball's Greatest Teams Tournament Challenge. This week Tim and I debate how our 1999 vs. 2011 and 2009 vs. 2004 semifinal matchups might play out in real life, and from there we leave it up to the listeners to determine who advances to next week's championship.

Vote in this week's polls on my Twitter (@MacCerullo) to determine this week's winners. Polls are open through Friday at noon.

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1999. 1995. 1998. 2011. 2006. 2009. 1996. 2004.

Each of those eight UConn men's basketball teams were among the greatest in program history, and each of those eight won their first round matchup in our ongoing UConn Men's Basketball's Greatest Teams Tournament Challenge. Now, it's time to decide which will advance to our Final Four.

In this week's episode Tim Fontenault and I cut to the chase and break down each of the four quarterfinal matchups. We have 1999 vs. 1995, 1998 vs. 2011, 2006 vs. 2009 and 1996 vs. 2004, all of which would make for absolute bangers and probably the greatest quadruple header if we ever got the pleasure of seeing these teams play each other in real life.

Who will advance? That's up to you. Vote in this week's polls on my Twitter (@MacCerullo) to determine this week's winners. Polls are open through Friday at noon.

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In our final first round matchup of the UConn Men's Basketball's Greatest Teams Tournament Challenge, we have what looks on paper like one of the biggest mismatches of the tournament. For the 2 vs. 15 game, we have the national champion 2004 team going up against the American Athletic Conference Tournament champion 2016 team.

Is there much debate over who would win a hypothetical matchup? Probably not. But Tim Fontenault and I still took this opportunity to reminisce about how amazing the 2004 team was and how much fun the 2016 team was during what was otherwise a dark time in the program's history.

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During UConn's first decade in the Big East, the men's basketball team was basically a doormat. The Huskies routinely got bludgeoned by the league's powerhouses, teams like Georgetown, Syracuse and St. John's, and heading into the 1990s there was no reason to expect any different.

But then the 1990 Dream Season happened, and everything changed.

UConn's 1990 team changed the culture, reset the expectations and showed what was possible in Storrs, winning the program's first Big East title and reaching the Elite Eight in dramatic fashion. The program continued to grow from there, and by 1996 the Huskies were a legitimate powerhouse, with All-American and future Hall of Famer Ray Allen helping establish UConn as a true blue blood.

What would happen if these two trailblazing teams met on the court? That's what Tim Fontenault and I are discussing today as we debate the 1996 and 1990 teams in our penultimate first round matchup.

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Throughout the UConn Men's Basketball's Greatest Teams Tournament Challenge, Tim and I have made it our responsibility to pick a team in each matchup and make our best case for why they would win a hypothetical game. Even in the lopsided matchups like 1999 vs. 2021 we've given it our best shot and made some honest to god points for why the underdog could possibly steal the game.

But this time, I drew the short stick and had to argue against 2009, and like every team the Huskies faced that year, 2009 broke me.

In probably the most hilariously lopsided discussion we'll have in this entire tournament, Tim and I discussed the 2009 and 2003 teams, what kind of seasons they had and I flailed wildly trying to come up with a coherent case against one of UConn's true powerhouses. Will there be a stunning 14 over a 3-seed upset? I'm not counting on it, but crazier things have happened.

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The 2006 and 1994 UConn men's basketball teams are two of the most talented squads to ever come through Storrs. Both teams featured future NBA stars, were loaded with highly regarded prospects and wound up falling short of their postseason expectations.

For 2006, you have Rudy Gay, Josh Boone, Hilton Armstrong, Marcus Williams and a whole bunch of other guys who could run, dunk and shoot on anyone they wanted. For 1994, you had Donyell Marshall, the program's first legit superstar, along with a young freshman named Ray Allen and a whole bunch of other standouts.

What would happen if these two teams took the court against one another? Tim Fontenault and I break down the two teams and try to find out in this week's 6 vs. 11 matchup.

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Kemba Walker's 2011 national champions and Charlie Villanueva's 2005 Big East regular season champions provide a striking contrast in style. On one side you have an unexpectedly talented, extremely young team that emerged as national champions seemingly out of nowhere. On the other side you have a group physically comparable to the Monstars who set out to defend their title and ultimately fell short.

It's no question which of these teams would win in a popularity contest, but if you stop and think for more than a moment, do we really know which of these teams would come out on top? That's the question Tim Fontenault and I will set out to answer as we discuss the 2011 and 2005 teams in our 4 vs. 13 matchup.

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Big East championships? Elite Eight appearances? Future NBA all-stars and lottery picks? The not-quite-there-yet cores of future national championship teams? This matchup is as good a 5 vs. 12 matchup as you'll find as we pit Rip Hamilton's 1998 UConn men's basketball team against Caron Butler's 2002 team.

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Shabazz Napier. Ray Allen. Two of the greatest players in UConn men's basketball history. Today we pit the two legends against one another in our second Who Would Win tournament matchup, with Napier's No. 8 seeded 2014 national championship team squaring off against Allen's No. 9 seeded 1995 team.

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Who Would Win? That's the million dollar question we'll be looking to answer this summer, as we at Yes UConn dive deep into the greatest UConn men's basketball teams of all time.

What would happen if Kemba Walker's 2011 championship team squared off against one of Ray Allen's mid-1990s juggernauts? How would the 1990 Dream Season team fare against an NBA factory like Rudy Gay's 2006 team? Over the next few months we'll be pitting two great teams against each other, picking a side and debating how the teams would match up against one another. Then, we will turn it over to you, the listeners, to decide which team would win a hypothetical matchup.

A couple of things to consider. We're not debating which team was more successful. "They won the title so they're better" isn't an argument that should fly here. We're not debating importance to the program or whether a team lived up to its potential. We're debating on-court factors and trying to imagine what would actually happen if the two teams met on the floor.

The 16 teams were selected based on their overall success, taking regular season, conference tournament and NCAA tournament resumes into account, as well as factors like KenPom and the level of professional talent on the roster. To determine seeding, Tim and I ranked each team and reached out to some friends of the podcast and to various UConn opinion-havers for their thoughts, and then we seeded the teams 1-16 based on those rankings.

Who will stand tall as the Top Dog when all is said and done? Join us on this journey as we find out, starting with this week's 1 vs. 16 matchup between 1999 and 2021.

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The 2020-21 UConn basketball season is officially over. Last week the UConn women's team lost in the national semifinals to Arizona, and with that the Huskies now look ahead to what could potentially be a historic season this coming winter.

Tim Fontenault and I wrap up the women's Final Four and how the Huskies and the sport at large find themselves at a unique crossroads with unbelievable opportunities there for the taking. We also cover Josh Carlton's impending move to Houston, the 10-year anniversary of the 2011 men's national championship and the epic Gonzaga-UCLA national semifinal.

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For the 13th straight tournament, UConn women's basketball is going back to the Final Four! The Huskies got the job done on Monday, beating the defending national champion Baylor in one of the most exciting games in the UConn women's program's history.

This game had it all. An outstanding performance by Paige Bueckers. Huge runs from both sides. A nail-biting finish and a dramatic final defensive stop, with a fair bit of controversy on the no call for good measure.

Tim Fontenault and I break down the game, as well as UConn's recent Sweet 16 win over Caitlin Clark's Iowa team, and catch up on the UConn women's postseason as a whole. We also cover a bit of ground with the UConn men, the transfer market and how Jordan Hawkins may be flying under the radar as far as hype goes for next year.

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The UConn men's basketball team's season is over. The Huskies were eliminated in the first round by Maryland after posting a historically awful shooting performance, and generally it was a real bummer of a finish to what was otherwise a great season for UConn.

As bad as UConn looked, however, nothing could compare to the massive "L" the NCAA took over its embarrassing handling of the women's tournament. From the inadequate workout facilities to the second-rate branding and everything in between, the NCAA made clear how little it cares about women's basketball, which is both a terrible shame and also tremendously short-sighted.

Tim Fontenault joins the show to get into all of that, from the UConn men's performance, its season as a whole and what the future might hold, to everything related to the women, both UConn's first-round win over High Point and the NCAA situation as a whole.

Hot tip, if anyone from the NCAA happens to be listening, Tim and I have some thoughts.

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This Saturday UConn men's basketball will make its long awaited return to the NCAA Tournament, and waiting for the Huskies will be No. 10 seeded Maryland. So what can fans expect out of the Terrapins?

Joining us today is Baltimore Sun reporter Daniel Oyefusi, who is a recent University of Maryland graduate who has covered the Terps for the past two seasons at the Baltimore Sun.

Oyefusi helps break down Maryland's roster, how its season has played out and what UConn fans should expect when the two teams take the court. We also have some predictions, and spoilers, we both expect a low-scoring, defensive slog.

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It's been five long years, but the wait is finally over. UConn is back in the NCAA Tournament! The No. 7 seeded Huskies will open their tournament run on Saturday night against No. 10 seeded Maryland, and from there a whole world of possibility awaits.

Tim Fontenault joins the show to break down the East Region, some of UConn's potential tournament matchups, and generally run through the tournament as a whole. We also cover last week's Big East Tournament, toss some big time props to Georgetown for their historic run, and laugh at my expense for bullying Tim into accepting a hot sauce bet and then proceeding to have that bet blow up in my face spectacularly.

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Finally! After nine long years, UConn is back where it belongs. This week the Huskies will make their long awaited return to Madison Square Garden as the 2021 Big East Tournament tips off.

Tim Fontenault is here and we've got the entire tournament covered. We break down each of the first round and quarterfinal matchups, offer our thoughts on different potential scenarios and try to figure out what to do with Collin Gillespie-less Villanova. You won't be surprised to hear that we're high on UConn's chances, but you might be surprised to hear who else we think might have a chance to make some noise.

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Can you believe it's been 10 years since Kemba Walker led UConn to the 2011 Big East Tournament championship?

Can you believe it's been 10 years since the Huskies won five games in five days in one of the toughest conferences in college basketball history to jumpstart one of the most epic postseason runs we've ever seen?

Can you believe it's been 10 years since Cardiac Kemba, the overtime thriller to beat Syracuse and the epic showdown with Louisville in the final?

It's hard to believe, but it really has been 10 years since one of the greatest weeks in UConn history went down.

Today Matt McDonough returns for this historic 50th episode of Yes UConn, where we look back on the 2011 Big East Tournament, our experience covering it for The Daily Campus and what this tournament run meant (and still means) for UConn. We hope you enjoy this reflection as much as we did ahead of what we hope will be another epic run in the Big East Tournament later this week.

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This. Is. March!

Can you believe it? After all of the waiting, the COVID pauses, the injuries and all the other setbacks we've seen throughout this season, we've finally reached the home stretch. This week UConn has a chance to lock up a top three finish in the Big East, and beyond that lies a world of possibility in the Big East Tournament and beyond.

How might things play out? What scenarios should UConn fans be mindful of? Tim Fontenault and I break it all down in this jam packed episode of Yes UConn.

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